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2 Writtle News email: [email protected] Writtle News website: http://www.writtlenews.byck.co.uk IN THIS TIME OF ‘COVID 19’ There is a great wealth of community spirit in the village of Writtle, WRITTLE NEWS 239 which I have tapped into over the past fourteen years, making my DECEMBER 2020 - JANUARY 2021 job as Editor very rewarding. There are many people I would like WRITTLE NEWS PRODUCTION TEAM to thank for their willingness to help in making the Writtle News a EDITOR: Christine Knight (420045) village community publication. There are far too many people to Writtle News email: [email protected] name and thank individually, but they will have the satisfaction of knowing they have contributed over the years to the magazine’s ADVERTISING: Wendy Kateley (420998) success. TREASURER: Anne Pegg (420200) Like a lot of our readers in this time of Covid I am missing DISTRIBUTION: Mary Steadman (421467) visiting my family and friends on a regular basis, with the prospect Copy for Issue 240 (email: [email protected] of not seeing them at Christmas, rules and regulations will make it a or typed) to Christine Knight, (420045) bit of an ordeal. Working on the Writtle News has however been my by noon on 1st January 2021 lifeline, it is not easy but it has mostly been business as usual, so a Advertisements to Wendy Kateley by 1st January 2021 big thank you to the Sponsors, Production team, the distributors, the writers and the advertisers, who have made the continuous B&W Advertising Rates If you wish to change production of the magazine possible through these trying times. 1⁄8 page £12.00 per issue your advertisement, To all our readers, ‘A Merry Christmas and hope for everyone 1⁄4 page £22.00 per issue will you please put for the New Year’. 1⁄2 page £35.00 per issue it in writing. Please Christine Knight, Editor. Whole page £65.00 per issue note that opinions expressed in articles in this Colour Advertising Rates DISTRIBUTION magazine are not necessarily 1⁄8 page £16.00 per issue A big thank you to everyone who has helped with the Writtle News the views of the Editor and 1⁄4 page £30.00 per issue distribution, especially in these difficult times. Special thanks to production team. 1⁄2 page £50.00 per issue those who volunteered to deliver extra copies. The Editor reserves the right Whole page £90.00 per issue Christmas will be rather different this year but I hope you are in her discretion to amend or able to enjoy it and keep safe and well. Advert Sizes (Type area only) abbreviate articles for reasons Best wishes, Mary. 1⁄8 page 30mm x 90mm of space and to refuse to 1⁄4 page 60mm x 90mm accept material which in her NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS 1⁄2 page 132.5mm x 90mm opinion may be regarded as To place an advert or to update your black and white advert to W/page 132.5mm x 190mm offensive or inappropriate. colour, please contact Wendy Kateley on 01245 420998. Please email art work for all new b/w and colour adverts to writtlenews@ ONCE IT’S IN WRITTLE NEWS IT’S ALL ROUND THE gmail.com VILLAGE DELIVERED TO 2,600 DOORS! Thank you. 3 ALL SAINTS CHURCH FROM THE VICAR I’m writing this on an overcast, cool and changeable autumn day at PARISH OFFICE: Tuesday-Friday 10.00am-12.00 noon the end of October that is not like some of the great, hot, glorious (422846) days in summer we had. I was lucky this summer as I got some CHURCHWARDENS: Margaret Bruce (699782), very welcome time away sailing around the East Coast - days of Tony Ripton 07799 690559 swimming off the boat, relaxing as we watched other water traffic, Email: [email protected], sleeping in the stillness of balmy summer nights. It was good to get website: www.allsaintswrittle.co.uk that change. PRIEST IN CHARGE: Rev’d Tony Cant I wonder how many of you were able to get some change from SECRETARY: Andrew Brewster Email: [email protected] the Covid claustrophobia of being stuck around home? Some of CHRISTIAN CENTRE BOOKINGS: you will have been harvesting flat out, some in offices or small Email [email protected] Phone: 07949 060567 Contact person: Andrew Brewster businesses, and some just trying to keep the kids entertained or out of your hair as you work from home. When it does its thing, the Great British Summer is hard to beat SUNDAY SERVICES­: isn’t it. But now we’re into the new season of Autumn and soon 8.00am Holy Communion (Prayer Book) enough it will be Winter again. But not like last year. 1st 10.45am Celebrating Together So often we hear the phrase uttered about ‘getting back to 2nd 10.45am Parish Eucharist normal’. I’ve wondered a bit about this. Is it a nostalgic thing to go 6.00pm Christians Together 3rd 9.30am All Age Worship back to the past when we knew what was happening and what 11.00am Matins was coming? Life seemed more settled then, and predictable. I 4th 10.45am Parish Eucharist with Healing Ministry think we all understand that predictability helps life feel more 5th 10.45am Parish Eucharist settled. And now that it’s not predictable we feel unsettled. That can affect our human nature in ways that may be invisible to start The Sunday services are at 10.00am online in lockdown. with but then can begin to manifest through heightened anxiety, stress, tiredness, higher intakes of alcohol, etc. BAPTISM AND MARRIAGE I wonder about that nostalgic look at life in comparison to an Preliminary arrangements should be made through the Parish aspirational look at life. I mean, instead of looking backwards at life Office by calling in or telephoning (422846 Tuesday-Friday 10.00am as it was, what do we think about looking ahead at life as it could -12 noon) be? There was a lot we got wrong before Covid, and why would we want to go back to those things, just because they’re familiar and PASTORAL VISITS AND HOME COMMUNION predictable? Requests for sick or hospital visits, or to receive Holy Communion Apparently, Einstein once said that the problems of the world at home, may be made by contacting our Pastoral Assistant Hazel cannot be solved by the people who made those problems. So, Kempton (email: [email protected]) or by phoning the other people are needed who see things differently. I think that Parish Office (422846). makes sense. So, what if we asked children what to do about the 4 future? Jesus said that unless we become as children, we’ll never ALL SAINTS CALENDAR see the Kingdom of God. He placed the value of children and their The following is a list of services that will operate only if Covid ability to see things differently far higher than the culture of His day restrictions are lifted at the beginning of December. Otherwise, the did. What if, as older people, we created space for our children church will remain closed and all services will be on YouTube. to take an aspirational look at life that comes up with things we would never have thought of? Our village school is just such an DECEMBER aspirational place that encourages our children to develop and 6th Second Sunday of Advent (1st) grow in a caring and challenging environment. It’s a place where 10.00am Parish Eucharist the future is nurtured and given space and encouragement by 13th Third Sunday of Advent (2nd) valuing our children for simply being. It encourages them to live 10.00am Parish Eucharist beyond themselves and for the good of others. What if we became 20th Fourth Sunday of Advent (3rd) like children for a year, and simply asked more ‘WHY’ questions? 10.00am Parish Eucharist Things would change again, wouldn’t they? And maybe therein lies 24th Christmas Eve the problem - the uncomfortable nature of change. Can we cope 11.30pm Midnight Eucharist with it? Covid is forcing us to. Climate change is forcing us to. 25th Christmas Day And just to finish off with, things in church are changing too. 10.00am Family Eucharist It will be no surprise to you that we can’t do church in the same 27th First Sunday of Christmas (4th) ways as the past. Our usual Christmas services will not be like 10.00am Service of the Word they’ve been in previous years because of Covid, and that’s a real Due to Covid restrictions, numbers in church are greatly reduced sadness to us as we loved to share the joy of Christmas with our and we are sorry we cannot hold the normal Carols and Crib village. So, no Christingle, or crib or traditional carol services this services. And we only have space for 35 people to attend the year. Please keep an eye out for further communications as to what traditional Midnight Eucharist service on Christmas Eve. If you will take place but remember that we can’t squash loads of people would like to come please give your name to Margaret Bruce, one into church at this time due to social distancing. We can only seat of our wardens (tel. 01245 699782). 70 people maximum now, there’s no congregational singing, and if you want to come to Midnight Eucharist on Christmas Eve, we JANUARY 2021 can only manage that by taking bookings. Please contact Margaret 3rd Epiphany (1st) Bruce on 01245 699782 to make a booking. 10.00am Parish Eucharist But of course, you can always tune into YouTube on Sundays 10th First Sunday of Epiphany, Baptism of Christ (2nd) at 8.00am for a live-streamed service, and Thursday mornings at 10.00am Parish Eucharist 10.00am for Morning Prayer with me. Just search on YouTube for 17th Second Sunday of Epiphany (3rd) Writtle with Highwood and Roxwell churches. 10.00am Parish Eucharist We’re in a season of world change that is deeply challenging, 24th Third Sunday of Epiphany (4th) unsettling and feeling like something most of us have never known 10.00am Service of the Word before. Nostalgia or aspiration - which is it for you? 31st Candlemas, Presentation of Christ in the And so I hope you have as good a festive season as you can, Temple (5th) that we all continue to look out for each other, and I wish you all a 10.00am Parish Eucharist Merry Christmas and adventurous New Year. Rev Tony. 5 FEBRUARY for runners-up. Individuals, organisations and businesses are 7th Second Sunday before Lent (1st) very welcome to enter. We hope you will enjoy a light-hearted 10.00am Parish Eucharist competition and that the church will raise some funds. The competition is an extra - we would like all of you to enjoy CHURCH ONLINE putting a tree or decoration in your window whether you enter Search on YouTube for Writtle with Highwood and Roxwell the competition or not. churches: Services on Sundays at 8.00am for Holy Communion Happy decorating! and Thursdays at 10.00am for Morning Prayer with readings from Alison Woollard and the Christmas Tree Festival Group. the Vicar’s Journals.

FUNERALS The following is a list of funerals in church or at the crematorium by All Saints’ the Revd. Tony Cant. Christmas Trees 2020 28th April Joyce Goddard 4th May Shirley Edwards 13th May Derrick Holdgate 19th May Jean Reid The Christmas Tree Festival Group have had to take the sad decision22nd May that Ruth Allen 2nd June Diana Rushen there will not be a Festival or Craft Fair this year. It’s a busy, crowded9th June event Violet Pert 19th June Joan Wilkinson and all the measures required by Covid 19 have made it impossible22nd toJune Bryan Hands 27th Oct Michael Rose organise. We sincerely hope that we will be back in 2021. 28th Oct Brian Cooke

This year it would be wonderful if lots of people could put CHRISTMAS TREES 2020 - LAST MINUTE trees, lights or decorations in their front windows. Small, REMINDER! big, simple or elaborate – all would be appreciated. We Just a quick reminder that there is no Christmas could all then enjoy the festive windows on our walks round the village. Just as the rainbows showed our Tree Festival in the church this year, but we hope support for the NHS and key workers earlier in the year, the as many people as possible will put trees or trees and decorations would be a sign of hope for next decorations in their front windows or gardens for year. people to enjoy as they walk round the village. And to add a little extra for those of you who relish entering a Alison Woollard and the Christmas Tree Festival Group competition: • by the 1st December send an email to writtlexmastrees@gmail. com stating your name, address and the position of your lit tree (window? garden? porch?) and • post a contribution (give-what-you-like) to church funds through the letterboxes of 56 Mayfield Road or 12A Back Road remembering to add your name and address, then • in the week starting the 14th December members of the Festival Group will tour the village to choose ‘the most pleasing tree’ from Father Christmas decoration, All Saints Church, 2019. those who have entered. There will be a first prize and certificates Photograph by Christine Knight. 6 WRITTLE GARDEN OF REST (OLD SECTION), NEW COMMUNITY PROJECT Tucked away in the back corner of Writtle Church, behind the wall next to the bowling club, is the original Garden of Rest. A new concept is in place to tidy and enhance the area. This will be a community project with the blessing of the church, although you do not need to be a church member to join in. We hope to start next March (too late for this year now), although a start has already been made by Kashi, a horticulturist who will be our ‘go to’ person for plant advice. We’re aiming for one day per week in the gardening season, March-October, and will be inviting people to come along with gardening gloves, secateurs, a trowel or fork, for an hour or so. Even if you don’t know a weed from a flower, do come along to see what’s going on. You’re welcome to bring a flask of coffee or your preferred drink, and meet other like-minded people and make friends. More details in the next update, so please give it some thought. Maureen Pallant. Email: [email protected]

Monet’s garden, Giverny. Editor’s garden, Writtle, 2020. Photograph by Christine Knight. Photograph by Christine Knight. 7 HOPE PARISH OF OUR LADY IMMACULATE Over the last year, it has been said that we have seen some tremendous acts of kindness and generosity. I can easily bear 178 New London Road, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 0AR testimony to that in the life of the parishes here. Not just amongst Telephone: (01245) 352898 parishioners, but also in our schools and hospitals. Abbot Hugh Allan BA(OPraem) One of the most remarkable moments of kindness was a recent SATURDAYS visit to a dying parishioner in Broomfield Hospital. Sadly, her two 9.00am at Our Lady Immaculate Church, New London Road children are vulnerable to the virus and were not allowed on the 6.00pm at Holy Name Church, Lucas Avenue, hospital ward. So, the nurses arranged for her bed to be moved to Moulsham Lodge a room with a window overlooking the car park. Her two children SUNDAYS could see her from there and one of the nurses had them on the 9.00am, 12 noon, 7.00pm. telephone whilst I said the prayers and gave their mother the last All at Our Lady Immaculate Church, New London Road rites. It was a beautiful act of kindness on the part of the ward staff 10.30am at Holy Name Church, Lucas Avenue, and I was so impressed by their generosity and thoughtfulness. Moulsham Lodge Sadly, as much as there has been so much good, this difficult WEEKDAYS year has also seen a dramatic rise in domestic abuse and it has 8.00am at St. Philip’s Priory, New London Road been heart-rending to see people suffering and paralysed by fear. Tuesdays and Wednesdays 12.30pm and Fridays 9.30am at This extraordinary year has seen acts of real kindness and heroism. Our Lady Immaculate Church, New London Road Sadly, it has also seen other incidents of cruelty and hate. HOLY DAYS OF OBLIGATION Yes, so much in the last year has been beyond our control, 7.00am, 9.30am, 12.30pm and 7.00pm. All at Our Lady but not how we have responded to it. That is what makes the Immaculate Church, New London Road difference between kindness and selfishness. 7.30pm at Holy Name Church, Lucas Avenue, St Augustine said that, “God made us to make the times, Moulsham Lodge not the times to make us. We are the subjects of history, not its CONFESSIONS objects.” Unless we make the times better with the light of Jesus 11.00am to 12 noon on Saturdays at Christ, then the times will make us worse with their darkness. To do Our Lady Immaculate Church, New London Road this, we need to live the virtue of hope. 5.30pm to 6.00pm at Holy Name Church, Lucas Avenue, Hope has been called the forgotten virtue of our time. Although Moulsham Lodge we live in an era of considerable technological and scientific BAPTISMS AND MARRIAGES achievements, it may also be an age of diminished hope or, By appointment perhaps more accurately, misdirected hope, because it is tempting THE PARISH OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT to replace the virtue of hope with flimsy substitutes that cannot 116 Melbourne Avenue, Chelmsford. possibly give us what our souls ultimately need. Parish Priest Fr. Paul Cracknell Tel: 354256 Perhaps what threatens hope even more today are not great MASS TIMES tragedies and calamities but the soft and subtle despair we settle Sat: 6.00pm into when we slip into ways of living that rob us of the exalted Sun: 9.30am & 11.30am good God wants for us. The problem is not that we hope for too much, but that we have learned to settle for so little. We have 8 caused the horizons of hope to shrink. We have lost sight of hope’s transcendent dimension because we have forgotten the THE BERYL PLATT CENTRE WRITTLE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION incomparable promise to which hope always beckons. Again, St Augustine (very wise man that!) commented that, “Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.” What we do with that anger, though, determines whether it becomes a medicine or a poison. Do we allow it to make us courageous in seeking good for others, or do we allow it to destroy us and those we love. This is why hope is so important. Scripture tells us again and again to fear not. The first words of St. John Paul as Pope - this, from a man who lived through a Front elevation Back elevation catastrophic world war and two brutally anti-human regimes - were The Beryl Platt Centre, 12/14 Redwood Drive, Writtle CM1 3LY “Be not afraid.” The temptations of fear, anxiety, depression and 01245 420676 / 07787 479228 [email protected] fatigue are experiences we share, especially in hard moments like today. The answer is the source of our hope, that blessed hope, Jesus Christ. WRITTLE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION As we prepare now for the joy and wonder of Christmas, remember that at the heart of this feast is the gift of hope. Hope The Beryl Platt Centre has now been open for around six weeks comes into the world in the birth of a small baby. May we all learn and is a COVID-19 secure venue. All our hirers have settled in well to respond with hope and never with fear. That is the heart of and it has been lovely to see classes going ahead and some new Christmas joy. hirers joining us at the centre, including SG Pilates, Sue Easteal’s Abbott Hugh. Chair Yoga and Kids Drama Club with Jane Ribiero. The Writtle Green Preschool garden is also now complete and Chelmsford Talking Newspapers are back recording again, both of which are WI wonderful charities which benefit the community. We are pleased to announce that most of the classes at the centre are able to In September, we again had a get-together on The Green, which continue now that we are in the HIGH tier COVID-19 category and was enjoyed by those taking part. It was hoped to hold another we are so looking forward to the day where we are able to hold one in October, but the weather stepped in together with Tier Two events again at the centre. We’ve had some great feedback from lockdown! the local community about the centre and its amenities and we are The committee have again distributed goodie bags to all our currently installing a wifi network and CCTV, as a safety measure members which involves having a doorstep chat. Among other for staff and visitors. Please do get in touch with us via our website things in the bag this time our President Caroline had made up jars or Facebook if you would like to find out any more information of biscuit mix for members to make from her recipe. Not good for about the centre and the classes which are currently running. the diet! Our monthly newsletter is still being emailed to members keeping them in touch with each other. Claire, WCA Centre Manager. 9 in a position to re-schedule, notices will be placed on our Village WRITTLE VILLAGE HALL Hall Notice Board, the notice board at Long Brandocks Co-op and advertised on Nextdoor Writtle website when we hope this meeting will be open for all to attend. The feedback we have received from hirers is very positive and all are more than happy with the facilities now available at the hall. Hopefully, once we have this dreaded virus under control, we can return to some normality and make full use of this non-profit- making village asset and all that it has to offer. Wendy Risdon, Secretary, Writtle Village Hall.

18, The Green, Writtle, Chelmsford CM1 3DU Secretary: Wendy Risdon, Tel: 07394 663636 From: Christine Knight [email protected] Subject: Village hall 4 Email: [email protected] Date: 19 October 2020 at 15:08 To: Christine Knight [email protected] After a lot of hard work, time and effort, we are pleased to announce that all the refurbishment work at our beloved village hall has finally been completed and we were able to open our doors again to Village Hall, main hall refurbished 2020. hirers on 7th September. Photograph by Christine Knight. However, on inspection, sadly we were not able to restore the original parquet flooring to the main hall, so it was left in situ with new flooring laid on top with the same flooring carried on throughout the building. With Covid always looming large this year, certain restrictions have had to be put in place, which means a temporary reduction of people using the hall and some potential bookings not being allowed to take place for the time being. However, the hall has been made as Covid safe as possible, with a final deep clean provided by our cleaning contractor and risk assessments provided by ourselves and all regular groups who hire the hall to ensure that all users are kept as safe as possible. Unfortunately, as we have now been placed in Tier 2 restrictions, we had no alternative but to cancel our Annual General Meeting Village Hall, small hall refurbished 2020. again which was due to take place on 21st October. When we are Photograph by Christine Knight. 10

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Writtle CARDS proudly present ‘DREAM HOUSE’

The world premiere of a brand new comedy drama written and directed by Jerry Thomas. This bitter-sweet comedy takes a humorous look at modern, crowded family life. Lots of twists, laughs and breakfast cereal!

Thursday 24th, Friday 25th and Saturday 26th April June at 8:00pm. Writtle Village Hall

Tickets are £9.00 and are available at [email protected] or contact our box office on 07858 990931

TEL 07858 990931 OR [email protected] WE’RE COMING BACK! WRITTLE CARDS WILL RETURN IN 2021 Because of the necessary restrictions on numbers in place at Writtle village hall, it has been decided that the Writtle CARDS March 2021 production of Dream House will now be presented in June 2021. ‘Dream House’. An original comedy written by Jerry Thomas. Thursday 24th, Friday 25th and Saturday 26th June 2021. And our hilarious family pantomime ‘The Princess and the Toad’ by Gordon House Thursday 25th, Friday 26th and Saturday 27th November 2021. Book early to avoid disappointment. Box Office: 07858 990931 Village Hall, stage refurbished 2020. Email: [email protected] Photograph by Christine Knight. Website: writtlecards.webs.com 11 casts on our lawns. NATURE NOTES Birds such as blackbirds, thrushes etc. feed on these worms and, in order to tempt them, will tread up and down on the ground in order to mimic the sound of raindrops, bringing the worms to the surface. It is believed that the largest earthworm in the world is the Gippsland earthworm of South Africa. They are often over 1 metre long and have been known to grow up to 6.5 metres long and as thick as your thumb. If you come across one in Writtle I think I will move to Roxwell! Many years ago it is said that Charles Darwin studied worms for some 40 years and came to the conclusion that there may well be some 53,000 in each acre of soil. Modern thinking tends to increase this figure to 500,000. I myself feel this figure is too high, The earthworm. as it would include all species of worm and not just earthworms. Photograph by Christine Knight, 2020. Worms have been called ‘nature’s ploughs’ as they break down organic matter on which they feed, and then put back nutrients into the soil. Their burrows also open up channels which allow oxygen THE EARTHWORM (LUMBRICUS TERRESTRIS) to reach the roots of growing plants and allow surplus water to I have no doubt several of our readers will be saying what a strange drain away. All this was said by Darwin many years ago and still subject and asking how relevant is it to today’s thinking? holds good today. He also said that worms were deaf, after carrying It is believed that a million different species of worm exist out noise tests with talking, music etc., to my knowledge this has throughout the world. I will be mainly concentrating on the common never been disproved. On the other hand, when birds tread up and earthworm, which is the most likely earthworm that we will see, of down does the worm hear it or just feel the vibrations? Most likely which there are some 3,000 species living in soil or water in our the latter. part of the world. There is a considerable loss of worms when using chemicals. The earthworm is known as a segmented worm. This can easily This, according to some specialists, is because the worms use a be seen when looking at the worm. Most of these segments have lot of energy trying to get rid of the toxins, neglecting reproduction. their own working units, so if the worm is in any way cut into pieces Working in my garden some while ago I had the occasion to most of the segments can survive. The earthworm is a soft-bodied take up some paving stones which form a path across my lawn. limbless invertebrate with no backbone and it seems strange to Some had become uneven. On lifting one up, I found a very well say it comes under the title of a member of the animal species. formed worm tunnel, so I was able to see the excellent way the The worm is also hermaphrodite (each individual has both male said tunnel was formed with all its rings. It was about 15 inches and female organs). long, with the slab forming the roof. The only fault I could find was Most earthworms spend their lives underground, burrowing in the fact that some way across the burrowing the worm had come the soil. They push some soil aside, but swallow most of it, which across a large stone, so it had to work around it, spoiling a lovely then passes through its body and out the other end, digesting straight line. some parts like leaves for their nutrition and leave the waste as Derek Cooley. 12 You can also visit our Facebook page if you want to know a little GARDEN & ALLOTMENT SOCIETY more about what we are up to. We wish you all a very Merry Chairman: John Rouse, Tel. 421350 Christmas and bountiful 2021. Writtle Garden & Allotment Society. The end of the year is normally a quieter time for gardeners and allotmenteers, as winter sets in and we can put our feet up by the fire... or get to work on some of the projects that we’ve been putting off throughout the summer and autumn. By now all members of the Writtle Garden & Allotment Society should have got their seed orders in, these will be available to collect from the Trading Hut in February when the trading hut reopens. There has been some confusion as to opening times of the Trading Hut; it is now open between 10.00am-12.15pm every Sunday between the months of February and November. We close throughout December and January to reflect the lull in activity on the allotments. Whilst 2020 has been quieter than normal with all social events, trips and shows having to be cancelled, activity on the allotments has been great, with the society welcoming a glut of new allotmenteers. There are still half and full plots available at Allotments, Victoria Road. both the Victoria Road and Chase allotment sites, so if you are interested please contact the Parish Council. Details can be found on the Parish Council website (go to ‘Writtle-pc.gov.uk’ then scroll to ‘local info’, and click on ‘allotments’ in order to obtain one). The Society is a welcoming and experienced group, always keen to offer up advice and support; so if you are interested please do get in touch. Membership of the Society is a bargain at £3 a year, entitling you to discounts at both the Trading Hut and local businesses. Membership is not just open to allotmenteers, gardeners from Writtle and the surrounding area are also welcomed with open arms (not literally of course, we try to adhere to social distancing!). If you are interested please come and speak to one of our wonderful volunteers at the Trading Hut. We will continue to review and adhere to the ongoing public health advice, but are hopeful that 2021 will see the return of our popular Summer and Autumn shows, with flower and vegetable classes as well as the chance to enter homemade crafts, cakes, jams and many others categories. Allotments, Victoria Road. 13 FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD In 1942, an adult’s weekly food ration comprised 2 ounces each of Churchill said “The only thing that ever frightened me during the butter, tea and cheese; 4 ounces of margarine; 8 ounces of sugar, war was the U-boat peril.” Command of the seas was essential 4 ounces of bacon/ham; other meat to the value of 1 shilling and to Britain’s survival as the majority of our raw materials, all our 2d and 1 egg a week. There were many other foodstuffs on ration, petrol and much of our food came from abroad. In 1939, the Royal as was clothing. Navy was the most powerful in the world and with our Empire and Along with rationing there was an enormous push to grow Commonwealth there had been developed the greatest maritime more of our own food and in fact by the end of the war we were trading organisation ever seen with some 7,500 merchant ships. only importing one third of food as against two thirds pre-war. The When war came the problem was that the supply lines were very key slogan was “Dig for Victory” and the nation did just that in vulnerable with the all too real risk of the nation being starved. gardens, allotments, on bomb sites, in parks. And the positivity of In just the first two months of the war, 68 merchant ships that slogan and the practical benefits produced also gave a boost were sunk and with the country so reliant on imported food the to morale. implementation of rationing was essential. In January 1940, At the forefront of this drive were our farmers. Marjorie ration books were issued to every man, woman and child and the Thorogood was married at All Saints in 1940 and she and her points-based system (borrowed from the Germans!) enabled the husband then lived at Arnold’s Farm at Mountnessing. Farming was exercise of a degree of choice within the system. And in order to a reserved occupation and vital for the war effort. It was a hard life have a ration card you had to produce your identity card. To issue in many ways, but Marjorie said she enjoyed it. She looked after the everyone with a card and ration book in a time of war and with so chickens, ducks, pigs and other livestock. Production was strictly many competing tasks was a very considerable administrative feat. controlled so that the resultant food could be spread fairly. Eggs were particularly important, but the arrangements for collection by the authorities could be a bit haphazard and sometimes three weeks would elapse before the eggs were collected - no-one worried too much about ‘best before’ dates then! As the war went on, eggs were replaced with dried egg powder. Other means of supplementing the ration were things like tripe and offal, whale meat and rabbit. Potatoes and carrots were relatively plentiful and typical recipes would show how to prepare curried carrots and beans, carrots and sprouts, carrot and bacon scraps bake, carrot and sausage braise and carrot soup. In the same booklet was a recipe for Old English Pudding, for which the main ingredient was - carrots! Food was also the constant preoccupation of Zosia and her mother far away in Russia. Whilst they had been able to get some basics from the relief centre it was never enough and so her mother decided that Zosia should go to an orphanage where she would get clean clothes, proper food and an education. The orphanage was not far from Kolkhoz and so her mother was able to visit. Zosia Identity card of Elsie Bradford of the Cock and Bell. would save some of her food and give this to her mother. This 14 Clothing coupons for a child. 15 The ‘Breconshire’ having been towed to Malta The ‘Cleopatra’ lays down a smokescreen is on fire and sinking, but in shallow water to shield the convoy. so much of her cargo is saved.

relative period of calm was not to last and after a few months the Polish families were told they must leave Russia. They were told they must go to Samarkand and so there began a long stream of people walking all day and then finding what shelter they could at night. Zosia’s memory of that journey is hazy, of days and weeks and months travelling slowly, mile after mile, but she recalls their arrival in early winter 1942 in the Russian port of Krasnovodsk on the Caspian Sea. The journey from Omsk in Siberia had taken them nearly eighteen months and now they waited; the next stage uncertain. Brooks also found himself in a place where food, and indeed everything else, was in short supply - Malta. The island of Malta was of enormous strategic importance lying halfway along the Mediterranean and had to be defended at all costs. It was attacked day after day by German and Italian planes pounding the island to rubble. Henry’s ship, the ‘Cleopatra’, was bombed upon their arrival in Valetta Harbour on the 12th February 1942, killing and The supply ship ‘Breconshire’ having been hit wounding a number of his crew mates. Malta was desperately by a bomb is taken in tow by the ‘Penelope’. short of food, fuel and ammunition and many supply ships had 16 been sunk and so instead of continuing on to the Far East, Henry on the verge of starvation and it was estimated that by June the was transferred to the cruiser ‘Penelope’ on convoy escort duty. food would run out, followed next by ammunition and in August Every convoy came under intense attack and Henry recalled that the oil. Then the ‘Penelope’ was damaged and was withdrawn to one trip was nearly his last. A convoy escorted by the ‘Penelope’, Gibraltar. As a result, Henry found himself ‘volunteered’ to become two other cruisers and several destroyers was repeatedly bombed a gunner manning one of the island’s batteries - a target for the and then they ran into three Italian cruisers and the battleship bombers if starvation didn’t force surrender first. ‘Littoria’. She mounted 15 inch guns and could have blown them Back home’ in addition to the actual war there was another - out of the water. However, the officer commanding the flotilla, Rear the war on waste. Our recycling efforts today are relatively small Admiral Vian, in true Nelson fashion, engaged the enemy and soon in comparison to the “make do and mend” ethos of those years. shells were crashing back and forth. In the end, the weather won Nothing went to waste - bones, paper, rags, metal, anything and as it blew up a gale and both sides withdrew. One merchantman everything, with regular salvage drives held in every town and had been lost in the bombing and another sunk upon arrival, but village. Any leftover food scraps were collected as animal feed. the rest of them safely docked with their much needed supplies Clothing could only be purchased by using your coupons and in which were speedily consumed. any event money to purchase them was an issue for many and so In April 1942, some 600 Axis planes were attacking Malta on clothes were patched and darned and ‘new’ clothes made out of a daily basis opposed by just 20 RAF fighters. Casualties were old curtains and blankets. mounting, medical resources were near to breaking point, thousands This was true austerity and although we should avoid looking of buildings had been destroyed and the bombing had reduced the back with rose-tinted glasses nonetheless, despite the shortages Navy’s ships to just the ‘Penelope’ and one destroyer. People were and the ever present threat of death and destruction and the fears for the safety of loved ones in the armed forces, there was a sense of everyone doing his or her bit and just getting on with life as near to normal as possible. John Trusler.

WEA

Unfortunately, there’s not a lot of news on the WEA front. Some of our members have been taking part in courses by Zoom, which are obviously different but okay as they miss the social interaction. We have now heard that the Spring Term will also be about having courses by Zoom, If anyone is interested in taking part on a Spring Term course and would like to discuss the technicalities of it, we can put you in contact with someone who is taking part on a course this term and who would be willing to help you get started.

“Don’t waste bread, others need it” postmark. Mavis Awcock, 01245 422668. 17 SARA’S KITCHEN For the topping When I first started to consider recipe choices for the 3 small ripe bananas December-January edition of the Writtle News my 300ml (½ pint) double cream, whipped initial thoughts were that it ought to be something Grated chocolate or chocolate curls if you have the time/patience! Christmassy or that it ought to be a proper winter Cocoa powder to dust over warmer. What I have settled upon is neither of those! It is a delicious dessert which will be perfect for entertaining over the festive period. Method Apart from a paltry injection of fruit, in the form of bananas, there is 1. Grease your loose bottom flan tin 3.5cm (1½ in) deep and nothing remotely healthy about this recipe - which is probably why 23cm (9 in) diameter. it is so very popular with my kids. Whilst they do help out cooking 2. Pre heat oven 180ºC /350ºF/ gas 4. at home now that they are adults - in reality this largely only occurs 3. Puncture a small hole in the top of each can of the condensed when I haven’t started to make dinner yet and they are evidently milk. Put them in a saucepan large enough to immerse them very hungry and impatient. Strangely enough, however, when I fully in water. Add the water and bring to the boil and simmer announce that I am going to make this recipe all of a sudden it is for 2 hours with the pan partially covered, adding more water all hands on deck in my kitchen! They appear, as if by magic, with as necessary to keep them covered. After 2 hours carefully their finger dunking / spoon licking offers of ‘help’. It’s like having remove the hot cans and cool. a couple of persistent, pesky flies hovering in the kitchen which 4. For the biscuit crust, put the crushed biscuits in a bowl and pour you’re having to constantly fend off. over the melted butter. Mix together and turn into your prepared My stained, torn and tattered copy of this recipe is testament to tin pressing them in an even layer firstly over the sides and then its popularity (and to the fact that I am obviously a messy cook). It on the bottom to make the crust. Bake in pre heated oven for 10 has clearly fallen victim to spillages over the years and the page has minutes then cool on wire rack and chill until needed. become stuck and then had to be un-stuck from adjoining pages. 5. Continue to make filling. Cool the melted chocolate to tepid. On a plus note, it is always easy to find due to its uniqueness. (Note Whisk the cream until it is just thick and fold it into the chocolate. to self - rewrite this recipe and try to be a cleaner, tidier cook!) Then fold in the vanilla. Spoon this chocolate mixture into your cooled biscuit crust spreading it evenly (whilst deflecting the scavenging finger dunkers who will then no doubt happily CHOCOLATE BANOFFEE PIE ‘clean’ your chocolaty bowl for you!). Chill until set. 6. Open the tins of cooled condensed milk which will have cooked Ingredients into a toffee-like cream. Pour the contents of both into a bowl For the filling: and whisk until smooth. Spoon over the chocolate layer in 2 x 400ml (14 fl oz) cans of sweetened condensed milk the crust and then return it to the fridge to chill until ready to 150g (5 oz) plain chocolate, melted serve. (Watch the bowl disappear to be ‘cleaned’ by your little 125ml (4 f1 oz) double cream helpers.) 1 tsp vanilla extract 7. Complete the topping before serving. Slice the bananas and arrange them over the toffee layer. Spoon the whipped cream For the biscuit crust on top. Decorate with your grated chocolate or curls and a light 260g (8½ oz) digestive biscuits, crushed dusting of cocoa powder. 90g (3 oz) lightly salted butter, melted 8. Serve to whoops of joy. 18 OUR VILLAGE OF WRITTLE A friendly place with real community by Tim Brooks Writtle prides itself on its sense of unity

Our village of Writtle is loved so dearly Just walk around, you can see why clearly

Close to Chelmsford our neighbouring city Writtle is small, compact and amazingly pretty

At the original centre the village green It’s not to be missed, it must be seen

Complete with pond, benches and ducks Retained is character; there are no Starbucks

The weeping willows stand so proud You will very rarely see a crowd

But residents all say hello and smile Often chatting for more than a while

Surrounded by ancient cottages and aged architecture Or attend the university college for a well-informed lecture

Wander around; there is plenty to look at The very observant may spot the hanging cricket bat

Or the met office station with its Stephenson Screen Writtle And when you are hungry there is plenty of cuisine Indian or Italian are both on the menus Writers Two restaurants we have, are both superb venues If you would like to write for the Writtle News As well as cafes and pubs such as the Rose and Crown please contact Christine Knight, Editor, A beer or two you can quietly down by telephone And standing tall the church; a place to think and reflect Tel: 01245 420045 A hub of activity its presence perfect 19 ERIK’S FAVOURITE WALKS Erik, thank you so much for having given at least two people hours of great enjoyment. ERIK John Marnoch.

ERIK’S FAVOURITE WALKS A walk around the water features of Writtle (see map). 1. Start at the Village Green duck pond, walk to Bridge Street crossing the River Wid at the blue painted bridge. Turn left onto a marked footpath after the blue railings. 2. Continue ahead to a 6 bar metal gate. After it, bear left on a well worn path that undulates and weaves along with the river (river bank always on your left). At a metal stile enter a farm field and follow the river until you reach a tall metal pole. 3. Turn left (you are now in Admirals Park) and with the river still on your left, soon reach a concrete track at the Gauging Station. Cross over the bridge and then immediately left. 4. Continue on this cycle track (Network 1) crossing a wide bridge (marked with Saffron Trail badge), sports field on your right and onto Lawford Lane. 5. Go left on bridleway to cross the bridge over the River Can. LETTER TO ERIK Turn immediately right through a wooden gate and then right It is with a mixture of ‘experiences of great enjoyment’ and, again after a few paces to follow the edge of the river bank. unfortunately, ‘shame’ that I write this. 6. At the end of the field, go left on a permissive path through Let us start with the ‘experiences of great enjoyment’; let’s face trees and at a wooden gate turn right to reach Lordship Road. it, we could all do with a feeling of enjoyment these days. 7. Go left here until you see the 2nd Writtle College entrance Periodically, since 2016, Erik has been good enough to share marked as Student Entry. Cross over road and walk to the back his ‘Favourite Walks’ with us through the Writtle News magazine. of the campus, going straight over at mini roundabouts, to the What a kind thought and so very much appreciated. Both my wife car park and onto Cycle Track (Network 1). A large reservoir is and I have enjoyed many hours following Eric’s walks. They are on the right. (detour can be made to the bird watching hide). informative, interesting, fun and, most importantly, they start and Walk the cycle track until you pass under power lines and then end at a pub. turn left into a field (hedge on your left). The shame comes in two forms. Firstly, shame on my part for 8. Turn left at Butler’s Brook and follow until you reach a concrete having taken so long to put pen to paper to thank Erik for taking the track. trouble to publish his ‘Favourite Walks’. Such a wonderful gesture 9. Go right then immediately left to cross the Brook and soon on deserves mention and sincere thanks. Thank you, Erik. your right are the remains of the Moat of King John’s Lodge. Shame two: despite many years in the Scouts and Army 10. At the end of the path you reach the road, turn right and along Cadets, my ability to follow simple instructions and read a map to Preston’s Garage and then take a left back to the Green. have barely passed the stage of opening a map the right way up. Helen Brown. 20 Writtle Rivers and Water features walk (3.75 miles) Lawford Lane

Lordship Road

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River Can

6 Bird Watch 3 Hide Beaches Mill River Gauging Station Reservoir 7 metal stile Fox Burrows Lane

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River Wid Road 8 9 River/stream 10 Butler’s Brook Footpath

Moat Track Ignore Footpath 2 Dog Poo Bin Bridge 1 Bridge St.

Duck NOT TO SCALE

The Green Pond Writtle Ongar Road Lodge Road

Always choose the right footwear for the terrain and weather conditions - make sure your feet, shoes and socks are comfortable from the start. Take some water for you and your dog. 21 THE BIRTH OF BRITISH RADIO BROADCASTING IN ESSEX were the monotonous clatter of Morse code. The Great War of (PART 2) 1914-18 saw wireless used in many ways and the requirement for HELLO CQ! THIS IS TWO EMMA TOC WRITTLE CALLING! reliable communications and reporting, especially upon the fall of By Tim Wander artillery shells, meant that the development of radio equipment and Historian, author, lecturer, presenter valve design moved at an unprecedented rate. Within two years Consultant and Curator - Science and Industry, Sandford Mill, the science of radio speech transmission developed to the point Chelmsford City Museums where, by 1918, robust, reliable and portable equipment allowed Looking back across all the years… I could never have dreamt ground to air and even air to air communication. what lay before me when I arrived in Writtle for the first time in The ‘War to End All Wars’ brought a tremendous cost in suffering, the summer of 1982, a fresh faced young graduate engineer. The death and waste, but as usual, war always spurs the advance of village, its history and that famous radio call sign would change my technology. This rapid technical development in hardware was life forever, and its stories would follow me around the world for met by an equal number of young men both fascinated by, and nearly forty years. I arrived in Writtle, more by luck and coincidence, now well trained in, the new art of wireless communication. By the rather than having any real plan to begin my career. Just another armistice of 1918, radio had been transformed from an inventor’s ‘baby’ software engineer among many, but one with a long held plaything into a faithful workhorse. interest in the history of radio. I was also vaguely aware that The social structure of the world had also been torn apart something important had once happened at the bottom of Lawford by a World War and the new world was ready to listen, hungry Lane, a long time ago. for instant news. The same war that had driven the technology, Spurred on by the then Marconi Company archivist Roy science and engineering to develop the equipment would now Rodwell, (who is still with us at 90+ years young), in 1986 I wrote make it possible for the general public to ‘listen in’ as massive an article for’ Ham Radio Today’ magazine that quickly became a quantities of war surplus equipment were freely available. Also tens two-part article for ‘Practical Wireless’. In 1988 I then wrote my of thousands of young men came home to this new world having first book, “2MT Writtle, The Birth of British Broadcasting” (now either been trained in, or having seen wireless communication and a collector’s item!) the first time the full story of radio station 2MT radio systems being used at sea, or in the trenches and skies of at Writtle had been written down. I was so pleased with it that I Northern France. didn’t write another book for 22 years, and that was a completely In the commercial world, at first the powerful Marconi Company updated version of the same book in 2010. (I have made up for it was still convinced that Morse code was the most reliable form of in recent years - there are another ten around with four more half communication between ships and between ship and shore. There written!). Oh, I also met my wife at Writtle, my family was born while was a widely held belief that speech transmission, known then as I worked there, and I started out on a fascinating world-wide 17- telephony, had no real place in the evermore crowded ether. So it year career with the company who had given the world radio. But was that a group of young engineers, born into the Victorian age, the amazing story of what the small team of pioneering engineers fresh from Military service during the war and working for the very accomplished there during the summer of 1922 had caught my formal and huge company that Marconi had built, took their stride imagination from the very first day. It has never left me. into history. As the new decade dawned, the time was simply right Today, it is almost impossible to imagine a world without radio for radio broadcasting to occur. and its sister medium television. But on the eve of the First World In Britain, the first broadcasts were, in the great tradition of War, when the science of radio was perhaps less than twenty years radio, complete accidents. Two Marconi engineers, H.J. Round old, the ether crackled with countless radio signals, but all of them and W.T. Ditcham, who ran the high power experimental station 22 at the Marconi Works in Chelmsford first brought entertainment to and Britain had gained her first official voice and the small village of the airwaves. Their transmitter tests soon became far more than Writtle in Essex, beyond all others, can claim to be the birthplace of telephony experiments; their regular evenings of music and news, British radio broadcasting, due to its innovations and regularity of including the famous concert by Dame Nellie Melba, became service. It faithfully appeared on the air every Tuesday evening for true firsts in the history of radio. The lady sang and was heard half an hour, at eight o’clock in the evening, for almost a year. throughout Europe, but the Post Master General decided that But station 2MT was so much more than an experimental radio Britain wasn’t ready for broadcasting and he closed the station station. The whole thing was conceived and run by the irrepressible down due to severe interference in November 1920. Captain Peter Pendleton Eckersley. A brilliant engineer, ‘PPE’ Then it started again in a small Essex village called Writtle. On and the 2MT team soon offered its listeners impromptu comedy 14th February 1922, popularly known as St Valentine’s Day, a weak sketches, the first ever broadcast radio play, dedicated children’s and static-laden speech (telephony) radio signal crackled out from five minute spots, impersonations, guest artistes, burlesque an old ex-army hut on the edge of a partly flooded muddy field entertainments and even parodies of grand opera. Nothing like in that small Essex village. The radio amateurs had waited a long it had been heard before. Eckersley was the power behind the time since Melba’s concert, and it was now time for the engineers microphone, Britain’s first ‘DJ’, who brought an amazing light- to deliver. The radio station that ran there was known by its radio hearted spirit and comic skill to the new art of radio broadcasting. call sign of 2MT, Two-Emma-Toc in the phonetic alphabet of the His sheer joie de vivre bubbled across the ether and he was not day, and it made history. But “doing this thing called broadcasting” only the first, but also talked to his listeners as if they were in the quickly turned out to be more complicated than it first seemed. room with him - and his listeners, estimated at over 20,000 people There were no rules, no regulations, no history to rely on. This was loved him and the station. a new medium being born into a new age. The new art of radio broadcasting had come back to Essex

The Writtle Team. Summer 1922. Back Row, L to R: B.N. Maclarty, H.L. Kirke, The Hon. R.T.B. Wynn, H.J. Russell. Front Row, L to R: F. Bubb, Noel Ashbridge, Capt. P.P. Eckersley, “Big things can happen in little huts”. E.H. Trump, Miss E.M. Beeson. The original Marconi Hut from the air, c.1922. Legend has it that Trump took this picture using a wire in his left hand. 23 From Marconi to Melba and on to the BBC The Centenary of British Radio Broadcasting By Tim Wander 2020 marks the centenary of British radio broadcasting and despite all the cancellations in 2020 author Tim Wander pressed on with his new book! There are only 250 copies, each one signed and numbered by the author and posted out directly by him. Only available via the website https://chelmsford2020.co.uk/ RRP is £19.95, but with less than 20 copies left they are £16.50 to Writtle Heritage members. It is 280 A4 pages, full colour/sepia (with over 80 newly colourized images!). The book will only be available during 2020 and will not be on Amazon! Tim can always be contacted on [email protected]. Much more here! http://birthofradio.co.uk http://marconibooks.co.uk The first night on 2MT - Robert Howe sings live. 14th February 1922. The Power Behind the Microphone Melba Centenary Show, 15th June 2020:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FeDSminBK8&t=814s

Thanks to Steve at CRH news for the fantastic colourisation of these classic and historic B&W images that really brings the people back to life - 100 years later!

FLAGS FLYING FROM ALL SAINTS CHURCH TOWER

25th Dec Christmas Day until Epiphany Diocesan Flag 9th Jan Birthday of HRH The Duchess of Cambridge Union Flag Nora Scott sings for 2MT. 11th April 1922. 20th Jan Birthday of HRH The Countess of Wessex Union Flag 24 25 WRITTLE ART GROUP AUTUMN EXHIBITION 2020 As promised in the last issue of Writtle News, despite the problems posed by the Covid-19 virus, Writtle Art Group put together an interesting ‘virtual’ Autumn Exhibition, which has been available for viewing online since 1st October. Entitled ‘Writtle Art Group - Art in Writtle’, the exhibition can still be viewed using a PC, laptop, tablet or smart-phone via the group’s website at https://writtleartgroup.blogspot.com Consisting of 70 pictures, the content is up to the usual high standards expected from the group, which has been in existence for over 50 years. To put the current virtual exhibition together, members were asked to submit photos of up to four paintings of their choice. On view is an eclectic mix of styles covering a wide range of subjects from traditional to modern. The editor has chosen a few of her favourites for this issue. We hope you like them. For those interested, the dates scheduled for the group’s next exhibition are Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st March 2021 - which hopefully will be a ‘real life’ affair in the Village Hall. We’ll keep our fingers crossed that we may be back to some level of normality by then! Peter Pegg, Writtle Art Group Committee Member.

Art Group Autumn Exhibition, 2020. Art Group Autumn Exhibition, 2020. 26 Art Group Autumn Exhibition, 2020. Art Group Autumn Exhibition, 2020.

Art Group Autumn Exhibition, 2020. Art Group Autumn Exhibition, 2020. 27 WRITTLE ARCHIVES Amazingly, another sampler was shown to us recently from a family Continued from Writtle News 238 history enquiry into the Harrington and Wood families of Writtle. of October/November 2020 Charlotte’s mother, also Charlotte Crow, was born in Stebbing in 1805, daughter of William and Betsy Crow and she married John CHARLOTTE CROW Harrington in 1829 in Stebbing. They had nine children from 1830- HARRINGTON 1830 1847, who were all born in Great Dunmow. Charlotte was the eldest child, born in 1830, and it is believed that she was the one who worked the sampler. In the 1841 census she was living at Great Dunmow with her family, aged 11. After that we have no records of her life as she had left home by the time the family had moved to Writtle in the 1850s. The sampler is interesting in that the verse shown below was taken from a hymn written by Isaac Watts (1674-1748) published in Hymnals and used in non-conformist churches. “There is a house not made with hands Eternal and on high And there my spirit waiting stands Till God shall bid it fly.”

The Hickerage, Roxwell Road By 1851, the Harringtons had moved to Writtle, living along the Roxwell Road in a house called ‘The Hickerage’, which is still there today. In 1851, John was a cow keeper and gardener with 22 acres of land and, by 1871, a farmer and seed grower. Charlotte, his first wife, died in 1873, and in the same year he married Harriet Siggers (1815-1897), a widow from Braintree who had two daughters of her own. By 1881, John and Harriet had moved to Writtle Green, where he died in 1887. When the Harrington family moved there in the 1850s it was known as Hickerage Farm and was divided into two residences with eight small fields around the house amounting to 19 acres. Two Harrington families lived there in 1861. The Hickerage, now a Grade II listed building, is described in an agent’s sales notice of 1986 as: “…a Georgian country house built before 1720 and has Roxwell Brook dividing the garden from the paddock on its four-acre plot. The fast-moving stream has to be crossed by a garden bridge. The house itself has six large Charlotte Crow Harrington sampler? bedrooms, three bathrooms and four reception rooms still retaining 28

Victorian tiled fireplaces and a dado rail. The solid oak kitchen has a dumb waiter to take food up to the dining room which is on a higher layer.” The Wood family of Writtle were also non-conformist and worshipped at the Chelmsford Baddow Lane Congregational Church, and the Writtle Congregational Chapel on The Green. The men folk were wheelwrights and blacksmiths in the village, and they must have met up with the Harringtons, a farming family, as two of the sons married two sisters. John and Charlotte Harrington’s daughter, Jane, born 1835, married Joseph Wood, born 1836, in Writtle Chapel in 1860 while her sister Rebecca, born 1841, married Frederick W. Wood, born 1841, in 1861. Joseph was a wheelwright and Frederick a blacksmith, taking over the business from their father Joseph Wood (1776-1850). It has been very difficult tracing the family, as many of the early The Hickerage, side elevation. Writtle Congregational Church records have been lost. If anyone has an interest in either of the families, please get in touch as we have more information in the Archives.

CORRECTION In the Writtle News August/September 2020 edition, I wrote about the Barlow family and Sarah Poole Barlow who I thought the candlestick holder might have belonged to. I have since heard that in fact the candlestick came down through the family of her younger brother, Robert Poole Barlow (1804-1894), who farmed at Monks and Barrows at Highwood and his descendants, Frederick and Evelyn Barlow, and Frederick and Martha Barlow of Avondale, Chequers Road, Writtle. I obviously barked up the wrong tree with the dates on the back of the candlestick holder, which probably refer to alterations of the church, 1802-1883.

Unfortunately, the Archives are still not open to the public, but if you have any enquiries please contact me, Wendy Hibbitt, tel. 421265 or via [email protected] The Hickerage, front elevation. 29 WRITTLE PARISH COUNCIL Lauretta Fox, The Clerk, Writtle Parish Council Office, The Green, Writtle CM1 3DT Telephone: 01245 420066 Email: [email protected] website: www.writtlepc.co.uk

MEETINGS TO BE HELD AT THE PARISH OFFICE, UNLESS WRITTLE NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN OTHERWISE STATED SOME ‘THANK YOUS’ During the Covid-19 pandemic, meetings are being held on Zoom. Probably by the time you read this we will have Notice will be given of any additions or amendments. closed the latest public consultation period - 4th December - which we were required to do MONTHLY PARISH COUNCIL MEETINGS under statutory regulation. Monthly Parish 7.30pm Monday 7thAnother December Major Step Forward May for I firstly the Writtle thank Neighbourhoodall of you who have taken the trouble to let us Monthly Parish 7.30pm Monday 1stPlan February have your views on the latest draft of the plan. We will now, over the Monthly Parish 7.30pm Monday 1st PleaseMarch note: This is notnext the month Warren or so,Farm collate Masterplan those views or the and, as appropriate, modify the Plan to suit before its formal submission targeted for the end of COMMITTEE MEETINGS Chelmsford Local PlanFebruary, to Chelmsford City Council. They will then take over the

Planning & Development 7.30pm Monday 21st It mayDecember have seemed that we haveformal been procedure quite quiet recently,I of a further am now consultation, pleased to independent inspection Playing Fields 8.15pm Monday 21streport December that we have received formaland confirmation referendum, from which Chelmsford if successful City Council will lead to its formal adoption. Planning & Development 7.30pm Monday 18thPlanners January that the Writtle Parish NeighbourhoodI would also Plan like will notto requiretake thisthe opportunity to publicly thank the preparation of a Strategic Environmentalmembers Assessment of the Steering ( SEA) orGroup, a Habitats past and and present, who have worked Species Assessment ( HSA). This is following consultation with the Environment CITIZENS ADVICE CHELMSFORD Agency, Historic England and Naturaltirelessly England. over the Had last we fourbeen years informed or so that to these bring us to this point where such Get help applying for Universal Credit. two technical documents were anecessary, highly sophisticated it would have involvedand professional a much increased document has been produced. Our Help to Claim service can support you in theworkload early andstages slowed of our programmeThey comeconsiderably. from a broad band of volunteers across the parish and have your Universal Credit claim, from the application, through to your all brought their own enthusiasm and expertise to bear. A copy of the Chelmsford City Council Screening Report dated 12th August 2020 first payment. is published on the Neighbourhood PlanPeople Section have of the asked Writtle Parishwho theyCouncil ar e, and there is a list on the Help to Claim is a dedicated service from Citizenswebsite WeAdvice. are now It’s able to proceedNeighbourhood with a further round Plan of section consultation of the with Parish Council website, but for free, independent and confidential. Our trained yourselves,advisors knowncan help as Regulation completeness 14, following which they we appear will be able here. to submit the with things like how to gather evidence for your applicationfinal draft plan or to how the City CouncilPresent: for the final Sue formal Bell, processes Louise Gannicott,necessary to Loistake Bowser, Maggie Parsons, the plan forward towards final adoption. to prepare for your work coach appointment. Please see the further notificationSophie in this Jackson,issue of Writtle Gordon News advising Ingram, the James dates Holtom (Secretary), Phil Call us for free: 0800 144 8 444. of the Consultation Period, howClaydon, and where youAndrew can view Thorpe-Apps. details of the Draft Plan Visit us: www.chelmsfordcab.org/universal-creditand its policies, and how you canPast: respond. Jackie Thompson, Lynne Hartley (original Secretary). I should also not forget the unwavering support of the Parish Best wishes Council and their Staff. Regards, Jonathan Weymouth, Jonathan Weymouth Chair, Writtle Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group. Chair Writtle Neighbourhood30 Plan Steering Group.

UPDATE ON THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT SITE - commence. WARREN FARM A sad day for the residents of our wonderful village. Writtle Parish Council has opposed this site since it was first Chris Hibbitt, Chair Writtle PC. proposed in 2015. Our key objection has always been traffic congestion. As part of the North West Action Group, we funded FROM THE COUNTY COUNCIL a comprehensive traffic survey undertaken by an expert in traffic SUPPORT FOR COMMUNITIES AND movement and this was submitted to the Chelmsford City Council BUSINESSES IN ESSEX as part of the Examination of the Local Plan. Together with a It is too early to predict the long-term impact report from Ringway Jacobs, it is clear that congestion on the of the second national lockdown, but the A1060 (Roxwell Road) is a major issue for this site. The hundreds council’s focus is on supporting communities of our residents who regularly use this road have confirmed that and businesses in Essex. The county’s early during the morning and evening rush hour periods major hold-ups entry into Tier 2 restrictions in October to regularly occur. limit the increase in the infection rate will One of the key objectives of the City Council for this site has hopefully mean that, when the lockdown is always been to minimise the use of motor vehicles by encouraging lifted, it will be well placed to recommend to government that we alternative means of transport, especially public transport. In the go into the lowest level of restrictions. initial consultation document, it states “this will be achieved by In the meantime, 50% of £4.4 million Tier 2 funding from having a new bus link running through Avon Road to connect to the government will go towards the homeless, those on low incomes, existing Chelmsford bus network”. This requirement has remained together with food banks and other community food distribution constant during several years of consultations, public meetings groups. The balance will be used to help sustain businesses across and discussions with the developer, the City Planners and Essex the county in liaison with the district, borough and city councils, Highways. All of these experts retained the view that the bus link is together with business leaders. an appropriate solution to the site allocation requirements. At the time of writing, the latest Covid data will be published On 15th October, the Policy Board of the City Council met to weekly on a Thursday on the Essex County Council website here discuss a proposal to revise the developer’s masterplan for this https://www.essex.gov.uk/local-outbreak-control-plan site with the bus link into Avon Road being replaced by a cycle For guidance on national restrictions from Thursday 5th and pedestrian link. Despite the strong objections from your Parish November visit: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/new-national- Council and City and County Councillors, this was agreed. restrictions-from-5-november This means that now, as the bus link using Avon Road will be abandoned, all motor vehicles serving the 880 houses, including YOUR CHANCE TO HELP CHILDREN IN NEED OF buses, will exit and enter the site via the Roxwell Road. It was TECHNOLOGY stated at the Policy Board meeting that this change is likely to Building on the government funded initiative during the lockdown, have only a minimal effect on traffic flow on this road. We are which saw 2,000 laptops being provided to disadvantaged pupils, bitterly disappointed that this was approved without a full public the council is calling upon businesses, residents and local councils consultation. to donate old devices for distribution to families and young people This recommendation will now go to the Cabinet of the City who need them. Council for approval, which is likely to be a formality. Following With many places of education opting for a more varied learning this, once planning consent has been obtained, building can offer and homework increasingly becoming an online activity, this 31 new scheme will ensure that pupils from all walks of life are able to “No, we need to do something more drastic”, added Liquorice. access their school or college work at home. The council and its “Let’s work something out after this yoga session.” staff have already donated 500 of their old devices and is working So when the yoga session ended and the goats were safely in with partners who are keen to support this scheme. The council their pen they put their heads together to develop a plan of action. cannot do this on its own and would, therefore, like to ask for your The plan needed to be really good, because the desired outcome help, please. was no more yoga! If you can donate an old or unused laptop device gathering dust “I know what we can do”, said Nanny. “It may be a bit revolting, or hidden away somewhere, it could make the world of difference but I bet we will never be made to join in with any more yoga.” to a young person by giving them access to online resources and “What is it?”, asked Liquorice. learning. “Poo on the people when we are standing on their backs”, Once received, all laptops will receive a thorough clean inside replied Nanny. and out with all data and programmes removed securely. No data “You’ve goat to be kidding me”, added Billy the Kid on the device will be accessed during this process. enthusiastically. “Let’s hope we can bottle it up for long enough.” For questions relating to donating please email TSLaptop. When it was time for the next yoga class the goats’ owner, who [email protected] was also the yoga teacher, became worried about them. She was If you have any problems about these and any other County aware that they hadn’t had their usual morning poo. Nevertheless, Council matters please let me know on 01245 421524 or email cllr. she went ahead with the yoga class which was a big mistake on [email protected]. her part. John Aldridge CC December / January 2020/21. “Now we will do ‘cat/cow’ with goats on our backs”, instructed the yoga teacher. GOAT YOGA So everyone assumed the pose. Then there was a huge pong! Yoga has included some strange “What is that awful smell?”, yelled a yoga student. “I’m going to practices such as laughter yoga, be sick.” but the strangest one ever is goat “Argh! My back is all warm”, wailed another yoga student. yoga. The main difference between The students jumped up and the goats went flying into the air. yoga and goat yoga is that while Then the panic-stricken teacher ushered everyone out of the hall you are holding your best ‘downward dog’ or ‘cat/cow’ pose, a and apologised. After that she rounded up the rather smug looking goat will stand on your back! goats and put them back in their pen. Apparently goats have a calming effect on people who practise “As long as I live you will never be part of yoga again”, snapped yoga, while increasing their happiness. Also people have to work the angry teacher. harder with a goat on their back and that is supposed to be good “That went very well”, whispered Nanny. for the body. But, not everyone is enthusiastic about this new trend. “Couldn’t have wished for a better outcome”, said Billy the Kid. The goats are absolutely fed up with having to stand on people’s “I guess that floats my goat”, added Liquorice. backs. Then all the goats rolled around laughing. Objective achieved! “I can’t stand much more of this”, whispered Billy the Kid. “We Copyright ©2009 Jean Cakebread and protected under UK and international law. 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